Bulletin Daily Paper 08/08/12

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AUGUST 8, 2012

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California teen’s cleanup this time has USFS blessing

Calvin Earp, who turns 18 today, asks to put a flier on a bulletin board at Strictly Organic Coffee on Tuesday in Bend. Earp, who lives in Oak Park, Calif., during the school year, is arranging a volunteer cleanup Saturday in the Deschutes National Forest.

deputy district ranger for the Bend-Fort Rock District of the Deschutes. “We just had more time to prep for it.” About to be a high school senior this year in Oak Park, Calif., Earp spends his summers visiting his father and other family in Bend. During his visit last summer, he became disturbed by the amount of trash littering the woods off China Hat Road and decided to organize a cleanup. Aiming to have the cleanup last year on Aug. 23, he started putting out fliers around town and spreading word on Facebook, but the effort stalled when he went to the Forest Service for approval Aug. 19. See Cleanup / A6

By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin

For the second consecutive summer, a California teenager is leading a cleanup of Central Oregon woods, and this time the public is invited. The Deschutes National Forest last year denied Calvin Earp, 18, approval for a public cleanup off China Hat Road. He ended up having a smaller-than-planned event with family and friends. This year it approved a cleanup of two cinder pits off Cascade Lakes Highway that is open to all volunteers. The event is set for Saturday southwest of Bend. “The only difference between this year and last is the time,” said Brant Petersen,

Merkley is seeking more limits on citizen surveillance

• Defense gets more time as DA seeks 83-year term By Scott Hammers

Rob Kerr The Bulletin

SAWDUST BUSTIN’ FOR THE FAIR

By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin

WASHINGTON — Last week, Sen. Jeff Merkley, DOre., introduced legislation that would tweak the law authorizing the U.S. to conduct electronic surveillance on foreign agents to better protect the privacy of lawabiding Americans. Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the U.S. government can covertly intercept communications involving foreign nationals outside the U.S. While the intelligence community generally must get a court-approved search warrant to target American citizens, if American citizens are communicating with foreign agents under surveillance, their communications may be monitored without their knowledge. Merkley’s bill seeks to close loopholes in the FISA Amendments Act, which Congress passed in 2008 to clarify the methods the government can use to spy on foreign agents without violating the rights of lawabiding American citizens. “This is part of a broad concern about information being collected on Americans,” Merkley said Tuesday. Traditionally, Americans grew up with the understanding that the government gave them a substantial amount of privacy, he said. Unless you were a suspect and a court granted a warrant, “you pretty well got to conduct your affairs in private,” he said. “That has changed post-9/11.” Technology has changed, and vast amounts of information are stored on citizens’ cellphones and tablets, including calendars, emails, browsing history and, with the use of geo-location software, where they have traveled, he said. See Surveillance / A6

Sentence delayed in Bray rape case The Bulletin

The defense attorney for convicted rapist Thomas Bray has won a request for more time to consider his response to a sentence of 83 years and four months recommended by the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office. Stephen Houze filed a motion to postpone sentencing with the court Monday afternoon, just over 24 hours before Bray’s scheduled sentencing hearing. Houze’s motion called the suggested sentence “outrageous,” Bray and effectively a life sentence, and requested a postponement of at least 30 days. Bray, 38, was convicted in the rape of a woman he’d met online and taken out for a date in February 2011. On July 30, Judge Stephen Tiktin convicted Bray on two counts each of first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy, and charges of fourth-degree assault and strangulation. Houze’s motion was approved by Judge Dale Koch, a former Multnomah County judge filling in for Deschutes County Circuit Court judges who are vacationing or otherwise unavailable. In a response filed early Tuesday, Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty described Houze’s motion to postpone as “frivolous,” and noted that Houze had agreed to the Aug. 7 sentencing date when Bray was convicted late last month. During discussions with Tiktin following Bray’s conviction, Flaherty said he made it clear he wanted to see Bray serve consecutive, not concurrent, sentences. See Bray / A6

Pete Erickson / The Bulletin

High Desert Buckaroos 4-H member Reata Youngblood, 12, from Paulina, shovels sawdust into place while prepping for the fair at the Crook County Fairgrounds. The Crook County Fair starts this evening with the Greg Merritt Community Scholarship BBQ at 5 p.m. The fairgrounds will host a breakfast for veterans at 8

a.m. Thursday, and the fair will be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fair hours for Friday and Saturday will be 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. The fair will feature bull riding, mutton busting, a carnival, concerts, magic shows, animals and more. For more information, visit www.crookcountyfairgrounds.com.

LONDON OLYMPICS

In fraud cases, companies often penalized but CEOs seldom are By Michael S. Schmidt and Edward Wyatt New York Times News Service

Idiosyncratic meets intricate in the pool By Sarah Lyall

Xuechen Huang and Ou Liu of China compete Monday during the women’s synchronized swimming duets free routine, one of the games’ odder events.

New York Times News Service

LONDON — One team wore bathing suits decorated with a picture of what appeared to be an owl dressed in a tuxedo. Another began its routine with the athletes lying, inert, by the side of the pool. And in an homage to the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, a third team, the synchronized swimming duet from Italy, tried to imagine how it might look to descend into madness while performing intricate leg maneuvers upside down in an Olympic swimming pool. See Synchronized / A6

Inside

• The decathlon is under way; see where to watch Ashton Eaton compete, Page C1

Jed Jacobsohn New York Times News Service

Online

• Tate Metcalf, Eaton’s high school coach, is tweeting from London. Follow along: @BBulletinSports

WASHINGTON — Pharmaceutical companies, military contractors, banks and other corporations are on track to pay as much as $8 billion this year to resolve charges of defrauding the government, analysts say — a record sum and more than twice the amount assessed last year by the Justice Department. The surge in penalties is because of a number of factors, including the resolution of longstanding actions against drugmakers and military contractors, as well as lawsuits brought against mortgage lenders after the financial crisis. But it also reflects a renewed emphasis on corporate fraud, as the Justice Department devotes more resources to the issue and demands higher penalties from companies. See Fraud / A6

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TODAY’S WEATHER

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Correction In a story headlined “Fast-moving fire forces evacuations,” which appeared Tuesday, Aug. 7, on Page A1, the date the Eyerly Fire started was incorrect. It started July 9, 2002. The Bulletin regrets the error.

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